East Asia (including Southeast and Northeast Asia) has witnessed the most spectacular pacification in the world during the past 30 years. Certain dimensions related to human security have been perceived as weak points in the long peace of East Asia. Despite progress, authoritarian violence is still a reality in East Asia. At the same time, certain other dimensions of human security—most distinc...

BACKGROUND Although theoretically peace affects health, few published evidence for such an association was empirically available. This study aimed to explore the association between peace and life expectancy (LE) among the world countries. METHODS In an ecological study and using random effects regression model, we examined the association between peace and LE among world countries between 20...

This article examines some arguments in favor of taking peace as a political obligation that can be found in one of the most important founders of the pacifist movement, Jane Addams. The main focus is on her 1907 book Newer Ideals of Peace, which has often been read as idealistic and outdated, and above all, as more of an activist’s manifesto than a serious contribution to either political phil...

From the eminent point of view which the happy consummation of peace has led us to, we may survey at our leisure the condition of the European powers. Warned by the past, we look upon the present state of the world with a cautious, as well as a critical eye. According to our conception, the study of Mind, in its broad physiognomy of nations and dynasties, of religion and civilization, is the hi...

FriEnt is a Working Group of: Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) | Church Development Service (EED) | Civil Peace Service Group | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) | Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) | Heinrich-Böll-Foundation (hbs) | Misereor/Catholic Central Agency for Development Aid ...

Joel Peters is Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA. From 1992-96 he as an Associate Research Fellow in the Midde East Programme at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), London, where he directed a research project on the Multilateral Arab-Israeli Peace Talks. He is the author o...

A concurrent hardware software codesign environment, PeaCE, is presented in this paper. PeaCE provides the designer with an environment in which the designer can design hardware and software components in a concurrent and cooperative manner. PeaCE covers the codesign which consists of specification, algorithm validation, partition, cosimulation, synthesis, and testing on prototyping board. The ...

For the first time in our recent history, Cambodia stands at threshold of making a transition to a period of sustainable economic growth that will enable it to achieve durable poverty reduction. Peace, stability and security in the entire country and for all of our people are the most important pre-requisite conditions for sustainable development. The Royal Government is strongly committed to s...

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With war in the Middle East and the prospect of terrorist attacks at sites ranging from major airports to the local shopping mall, it may be appropriate to remind ourselves that much of the world is experiencing an extended period of peace. Indeed, developed countries have not fought each other since the Second World War. This peace is unusual because powerful nations are historically the most ...